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What are the valid reasons for divorce under Sharee‘ah?
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All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His Slave and Messenger.
There are many reasons for divorce; for it was prescribed for the need of the spouses. We can summarize such reasons as follows:
1- If the wife is not a righteous or a well-mannered Muslim woman, or both.
2- The husband’s inability to fulfill his wife’s rights over him duly; such as providing for her and so on.
3- The husband’s total repulsion and sexual disinterest in his wife due to the lack of pleasure in intercourse and so on.
4- The wife’s ill-conduct, contempt and arrogant attitude towards her husband.
5- Due to the order of a parent as long as it was with no intransigence and provided that it is based on a valid reason under Sharee‘ah.
Allaah Knows best.
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